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A comment on Ask HN: When it's too much observability?.

Re:Ask HN: When it's too much observability? by curious_curios on Sunday September 07, 2025 @11:35AM (#45159108)
If you’re getting value from it, keep adding it!

Two cases where this advice breaks down:

- If the telemetry boilerplate code starts hampering your ability to read and reason about the underlying business logic code.

- When your observability bill gets too big.

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Re:Ask HN: When it's too much observability? by diegojromero on Sunday September 07, 2025 @12:27PM (#45159631)
Well, I was so worried about boilerplate that I created a Python decorator for avoiding polluting the code with so much of that (https://github.com/diegojromerolopez/otelize).

About the cost, AFAIK it is not prohibitive.

I will continue working as I was, thanks for your opinion!

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